Pleading for Help

Residents hold a sign that reads in Spanish "We need help. There are children. Please" as a military helicopter flies by in the coastal town of Iloca, Chile, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The government deployed thousands of army and navy troops throughout the country's central coastal region to contain looting and clear the way for aid to be distributed.

Under Fire

New York Gov. David Paterson arrives to the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Paterson has been under fire to resign since reports of his intervention in a domestic violence case involving an aide.

Ready for Change

Thousands of supporters of the Kurdish opposition "Gorran" or "Change" movement attend a rally led by the party's leader Nosherwan Mustafa in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, in Iraq, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Iraqis are due to go to the polls on March 7 for national elections.

Search Mode

People search for survivors after a landslide in the region of Bududa in Eastern Uganda, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The mudslides swamped the region late Monday and Tuesday after torrents of rain pounded the mountainous region known as Bududa, 170 miles east of Kampala, the capital. Police, army soldiers and aid workers have been working to recover bodies in the remote villages.

In Protest

A protester jumps over burning banners during an anti government rally outside parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Protesters hurled rocks at police who returned fire with tear gas canisters and water cannons outside the national parliament, where a parliamentary committee investigating irregularities in the government's $715 million bailout of Century Bank in 2008 is holding a meeting.